FALL 2010 CONTRIBUTORS
Doug Anderson’s most recent book is Keep Your Head Down, a memoir about Vietnam and the sixties published by W.W. Norton. He teaches in the Pacific University of Oregon MFA program.
Matthew James Babcock teaches at BYU-Idaho. He holds a PhD in literature and criticism from Indiana University of Pennsylvania. In 2008, he won the Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Award. This year, his novella, “He Wanted to Be a Cartoonist for The New Yorker,” won first prize in Press 53’s Open Awards. He’s got stuff in Bateau, Spoon River Poetry Review, Quiddity, Alehouse, and other journals.
Ruth Bavetta has been published in Nimrod, Tar River Poetry, Rhino, Rattle, Poetry East, North American Review, Atlanta Review, and Poetry New Zealand, among others, and is included in the book Twelve Los Angeles Poets. She is a graduate of the University of Southern California, California State College San Bernardino, and Claremont Graduate School.
Greg Billingham is a recent graduate of the University of New Hampshire with a BA in English. He is currently living, working, and writing in New Hampshire. Previous or forthcoming publishing credits include Poetry Quarterly, Tonopah Review, Chaffin Journal, White Whale Review, Grasslimb, and Sierra Nevada Review, amongst others.
Alan Birkelbach was the 2005 Poet Laureate of Texas. He has five collections of poetry (with 3 more forthcoming in 2010-2011.) He has been published in journals such as Concho River Review and Descant.
His work has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and two Wrangler Awards.
Born and raised in the Missouri Ozarks, DF Brown lives and teaches in Houston, Texas. Brown served as a combat medic with Bravo Company, First of the Fourteenth Infantry in Viet Nam, 1969-70. He is searching for a publisher for his manuscript, The Other Half of Everything: the Connected War Poems of DF Brown.
Kevin Marshall Chopson received his MFA from Murray State University. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in The Baltimore Review, the English Journal, New Mardrid, Tipton Poetry Journal, Poem, Birmingham Arts Journal, the Aurorean, and The South Carolina Review, among others. He teaches writing at Davidson Academy and Volunteer State Community College, both just north of Nashville, Tennessee.
David Chorlton lives in Phoenix where he runs the Poetry at the Puppet Theater readings (at the Great Arizona Puppet Theater) and continues his writing. His chapbook, ‘From the Age of Miracles’, appeared in 2009 in the Slipstream Chapbook series.
Sean Clifford was born in New Orleans, raised in Rhode Island and currently lives in Los Angeles. Since graduating from Yale University in 2006, he has worked in New York and Los Angeles in the television business, and currently works on the FX show, "It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia." In addition to writing poetry, his passions include listening to his ever-growing record collection, hiking, playing Scrabble.
Laura M. Dixon is a Michener Fellow in poetry at The University of Texas at Austin, where she also serves as Associate Editor of Bat City Review. She has received residencies from the Hambidge Center and the Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild. Her work has appeared recently or is forthcoming in Wicked Alice, Front Porch, Pure Francis, Innisfree, Apparatus Magazine, and Georgetown Review.
Poet and journalist celeste doaks is the recipient of the 2009 Academy of American Poets Graduate Prize and AWP WC&C Scholarship. Her journalism has appeared in multiple journals such as the Village Voice and Time Out New York; while her most recent poems can be seen in Asheville Poetry Review and onTorch.com. Doaks completed her MFA degree in May from North Carolina State University and is currently working as a creative writing instructor.
Justin Dodd is a graduate of the University of Virginia and Columbia University. His work has appeared in such publications as Western Humanities Review, Fourteen Hills, DIAGRAM Magazine, Phoebe, The Powhatan Review, Bateau, and Heliotrope. A Pushcart nominee, he was a finalists for the 2007 Beatrice Hawley Award from Alice James Books. In 2004, he was invited by the Center for Book Arts to attend the Letterpress Printing & Fine Press Publishing Seminar for Emerging Writers. While at Columbia’s School of the Arts, he received the Corrente Fellowship and an internship with the Academy of American Poets. He resides in Brooklyn with four cats. Dodd is a book designer for HarperCollins and is trained as a photographer and sculptor. In his spare time he roadies for his sister’s band Screen Vinyl Image, and feeds the stray cats on his block.
W. D. Ehrhart teaches at the Haverford School in suburban Philadelphia. The husband of Anne and proud father of Leela, a recent cum laude graduate of Drexel University, his most recent book is The Bodies Beneath the Table (Adastra Press, 2010).
Andrew C. Gottlieb’s award-winning poetry & fiction has appeared in many journals including the American Literary Review, Beloit Fiction Journal, DIAGRAM, ISLE, Provincetown Arts, Poets & Writers, Tampa Review, and Terrain.org. His chapbook of poems, Halflives, was published in 2005 by New Michigan Press. He’s been nominated for the Pushcart Prize several times, and was most recently writer-in-residence at the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts.
Pat Hanahoe-Dosch’s poems have appeared in various literary magazines, such as Abalone Moon, The Paterson Literary Review, Switched-on Gutenberg, and Without Halos. She has an MFA in creative writing from The University of Arizona and currently teaches writing and literature for the Lancaster campus of the Harrisburg Area Community College in Lancaster, PA.
Rene Hargrove was born in Biloxi, Mississippi. She is a New Yorker of nine years. Her work has been published by Iodine Poetry Journal and Song of the San Joaquin. She believes that self-expression has the power to inspire empathy and hope in this world where cruelty is the most esteemed trait and its reward second only to that of ignorance.
Andrew Hilbert lives and works in San Antonio, TX. He is one founder and editor of Beggars &Cheeseburgers magazine.
Marianna Hofer inhabits Studio 13 in the gloriously haunted Jones Building in downtown Findlay, Ohio. She has published poems and stories in a variety of small magazines, and her b&w photography has hung in various local exhibitions and eateries. Her first book, A Memento Sent by the World, was published by Word Press in 2008.
Gary F. Iorio is a real estate attorney in Suffolk County, New York. His work has appeared in approx. twenty journals and newspapers.
Emmanuel J has performed his poetry in libraries and festivals across Europe. He is planning to pick up a doctoral place at University of London this fall.
Peter Kahn is a founding member of the London poetry collective--Malika’s Kitchen. His poems have been published internationally in various journals including Lumina, Make, Pearl and The Fourth River. He is a prize-winner in the Poetry Society’s National Poetry Competition (UK) and was a finalist in the Fugue Poetry Contest. A high school teacher since 1994, Peter was a Featured Speaker at the National Council for the Teachers of English annual convention.
Maureen Kingston lives and works in eastern Nebraska. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in the Alehouse Press, Blue Collar Review, Blue Earth Review, Halfway Down the Stairs, Lucid Rhythms, Melusine, Nebraska Life, Paddlefish, Pemmican, Plains Song Review, Tipton Poetry Journal, Triggerfish Critical Review, WestWard Quarterly and the anthologies Words Like Rain and The Great American Road Show.
John Kippen lives in Salt Lake with two black cats, Cleo and Trixie. He is a founding editor of the poetry magazine Sugar House Review. In 2004, he received his Master's degree in English from the University of Utah. In 2009, he began work on a PhD in Philosophy. When he is not thinking about poetry or philosophy, he is typically obsessing about rock music or the latest news on NPR.
Richard Leach is as journeyman, professional guitarist, teacher and band leader. He is also a composer. The south bay southern California musician has recorded six cds and two poetry chapbooks, ‘Quiet Noise’ and ‘Vibrato.’ His poems are also placed with Poetic Diversity and American Federation Musicians ( AFM ) local 47. www.rleachguitar.net
Adrian C. Louis is a Professor of English in the Minnesota State University system. His 2006 book of poems, Logorrhea (Northwestern University Press), was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. More info may be found at www.Adrian-C-Louis.com.
Peter Ludwin's first full length collection, A Guest in All Your Houses, was published in 2009 by Word Walker Press. For the past nine years he has been a participant in the San Miguel Poetry Week in central Mexico. He is the recipient of a Literary Fellowship from Artist Trust, and was the 2007-2008 Second Prize Winner of the Anna Davidson Rosenberg Awards. His poems have appeared in many journals. He lives in Kent, Washington.
Professor of English at LHU, Marjorie Maddox has published eight collections of poetry and over 350 poems, stories, and essays in journals and anthologies. She is the co-editor of Common Wealth: Contemporary Poets on Pennsylvania and author of two children’s books from Boyds Mills Press. Her short story collection, ‘What She Was Saying’, was one of three finalists for the Katherine Anne Porter Book Award. The recipient of numerous awards, Marjorie lives with her husband and two children in Williamsport, PA.
Dave Malone is a writer who likes spending time in the Southwest and on his grandmother's farm. His interests include Ozark culture, college football, the wordy works of Osho, and the teachings of Alan Watts. His poems have appeared in Elder Mountain, Stone's Throw, and Red Rock Review, and he has more poems forthcoming from The Cape Rock and Word Riot.
Kevin Miller lives in Tacoma, Washington. Blue Begonia Press published his first two collections, ‘Light That Whispers Morning,’ and ‘Everywhere Was Far.’ Pleasure Boat Studio published ‘Home & Away: The Old Town Poems,’ in 2008.
George Moore has appeared in The Atlantic, Poetry, Colorado Review, North American Review, Orion, and internationally of late with Blast, Queen's Quarterly, Dublin Quarterly, and Antigonish Review. He was nominated last year for two Pushcart Prizes and two "Best of the Web" awards, and this year for The Rhysling Poetry Award. My two most recently collections are All Night Card Game in the Back Room of Time (Pulpbits.com 2007) and Headhunting (Mellen 2002). He teaches literature with the University of Colorado, Boulder.
Eric Morago has been a featured reader all over Southern California, and his poetry can be found in many print and online publications. Currently Eric is working with Red Hen Press’ Writing in Schools Outreach Program. He holds an MFA in creative writing from California State University, Long Beach. His first full-length collection of poetry entitled, What We Ache For, will be available from Moon Tide Press in October 2010.
Kay Mullen is a former teacher and school and mental health counselor. Her work has appeared in a variety of poetry journals including most recent, Appalachia, Crab Creek Review, Valparaiso Poetry Review, and in various Anthologies. Her work has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and Sundress Publications’ Best of the Net 2009. Kay is the author of two full-length poetry collections, Let Morning Begin (2001) and A Long Remembering: Return to Vietnam (2006). She earned the Rainier Writing Workshop MFA from Pacific Lutheran University. Kay lives in Tacoma, Washington, teaches poetry at Catherine Place, a center for women and offers Poets On Loss workshops.
Cynthia Neely’s poems have appeared in, among others, Autumn Sky, Loch Raven Review and Web del Sol’s IBPC as a finalist, and will soon appear in The Floating Bridge, Quiddity and the Library of Congress’s anthology Poetry for the Mind’s Joy (works chosen and compiled by poet laureate, Kay Ryan) .Cynthia was a professional textile artist before turning to painting and poetry. The natural world, and her place in it, has always been an important subject in her work.
Melinda Palacio lives in Santa Barbara where she is a co-editor of Ink Byte Magazine. She is a 2007 PEN EV Fellow and a 2009 poetry alum of the Squaw Valley Community of Writers. Her first novel, Ocotillo Dreams, will be published by Arizona State University’s Bilingual Press, Fall 2010. Her poetry chapbook, Folsom Lockdown, won Kulupi Press’ Sense of Place contest.
Alex Pepple’s poems have appeared or will appear in La Petite Zine, Light Quarterly, Eclectica, Snakeskin, Octavo, The Melic Review, and others. He is the editor of the online journal Able Muse at www.ablemuse.com.
Simon Perchik is an attorney whose poems have appeared in Partisan Review, The New Yorker and elsewhere. For more information, including his essay ‘Magic, Illusion and Other Realities’, and a complete bibliography, please visit his website at www.simonperchik.com.
Dannye Romine Powell is the author of three collections of poetry. The most recent (2008), "A Necklace of Bees," won the Brockman-Campbell Award for the best book of poetry by a North Carolinian in the preceding year. Her first book, "At Every Wedding Someone Stays Home," won the Miller Williams First Book Award from the University of Arkansas Press. She has won fellowships in poetry from the NEA and from the N.C. Arts Council. She lives in Charlotte, N.C., where she is a news columnist for The Charlotte Observer newspaper.
Marguerite Scott teaches composition and poetry at The College of Charleston. Her work has appeared in Feminist Studies, The Green Hills Literary Lantern, and The Evansville Review among others. In addition to her academic teaching load, she also runs community writing workshops, and perhaps for this reason, values a brand of poetry that is transcendent, but also entirely readable.
Marvin Shackelford holds an MFA in fiction writing from the University of Montana. His stories and poems have appeared or are forthcoming in journals such as Cimarron Review, Quarterly West, Harpur Palate, Pisgah Review, Fuselit, and Grasslimb, amongst others. He lives in rural Kentucky, where he earns his living in agriculture.
Lisa Siedlarz’s work has appeared in the MacGuffin, Calyx, Connecticut Review, Louisiana Literature, Main Street Rag, South Carolina Review, Patterson Literary Review, War Literature and the Arts, Poems & Plays, and others. She was awarded the 2006 John Holmes Poetry Award, and the 2007 Leo Connellan prize. Her chapbook, I Dream My Brother Plays Baseball is published by Clemson University Digital Press (2009). She is the editor for Connecticut River Review, the poetry journal sponsored by the CT Poetry Society, and the managing editor for Connecticut Review. She received an MFA from Western Connecticut State University, and currently works for Southern Connecticut State University as the Financial Aid Administrator.
Known mainly as a poet/teacher, Barry Spacks has brought out various novels, stories, three poetry-reading CDs and ten poetry collections while teaching literature and writing for years at M.I.T. & U C Santa Barbara. His most recent book of poems, ‘Food for the Journey,’ appeared from Cherry Grove in August, 2008.
KH Solomon is an agricultural engineer who for years preached water conservation in places common to strange. He began writing poetry to capture the experiences and remarkable characters encountered during his agricultural adventures. Now working on a second career, Ken combs beaches in Morro Bay, CA., finding it pays about as well as poetry. His publication credits include ZYZZYVA, The English Journal, River Oak Review, The Healing Muse, Tiger's Eye, and others.
J.J. Steinfeld is a Canadian fiction writer, poet, and playwright who lives on Prince Edward Island. He has published two novels, Our Hero in the Cradle of Confederation (Pottersfield Press) and Word Burials (Crossing Chaos Enigmatic Ink), nine short story collections, the previous three by Gaspereau Press — Should the Word Hell Be Capitalized?, Anton Chekhov Was Never in Charlottetown, and Would You Hide Me? — and two poetry collections, An Affection for Precipices (Serengeti Press) and Misshapenness (Ekstasis Editions).
Larry D. Thomas served as the 2008 Texas Poet Laureate. He retired in 1998 after a three-decade career in social service and adult criminal justice. He has published fourteen collections of poems, most recently The Skin of Light (Dalton Publishing 2010) and Wolves (Timberline Press/El Grito del Lobo imprint). Larry's website address is www.larrydthomas.com.
Christopher Tozier has been published in over thirty print journals including Tampa Review, Fifth Wednesday , Saw Palm, The South Carolina Review, The Literary Review, Cream City Review, The Florida Review, Maryland Poetry Review, and The Wisconsin Review. He served as poetry editor for The Madison Review for several years. He graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison Creative Writing program.
Called by The Bloomsbury Review, “one of the most insightful and spirited poets today,” Pamela Uschuk is author of five books of poems, including CRAZY LOVE (2009 Wings Press), winner of the 2010 American Book Award. Her work is published around the world and has been translated into nearly a dozen languages. She teaches creative writing at Fort Lewis College in Durango, Colorado. In Spring 2011, she will hold the Hodges Chair as Visiting Writer at University of Tennessee, Knoxville.
Stephen R. Williams is a writer of short stories and poetry. Stephens’s stories and poems most recently appeared in the Raleigh Review, Prole, Stub and elsewhere. He is currently in Iraq running water for our military, trying not to get blown up.
Francine Witte is a poet and fiction writer living in NYC. Her poetry chapbook, "First Rain" was published by Pecan Grove Press and her flash fiction chapbook, "The Wind Twirls Everything" was published by MuscleHead Press. She was a 2009 Pushcart Prize Nominee and shared second prize in the PCCC Allen Ginsberg Contest. She is a high school English teacher.
Alessio Zanelli is an Italian poet who has long adopted English as his writing language and has published widely in literary magazines around the world. He is the author of three collections, most recently Straight Astray, the poetry editor of Private Photo Review, an international magazine of b/w photography and short writings, and the Italian Stanza's Representative for the Poetry Society of London. Website: http://www.writesight.com/writers/Zanelli/
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